In December, go on road trip, Jiuquan, Gansu Province, took stock of the good places. How many of these 1 Jiuquan scenic spots are most suitable for go on road trip?
1. Mogao Grottoes
The Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Cave, is located on the cliff at the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City. It is one of the largest, longest-built, richest and most well-preserved Buddhist grottoes and temples in the world. It is known as the "art museum in the desert" and "museum on the wall" and is famous for its exquisite murals and statues. In 1961, the Mogao Grottoes were announced by the State Council as the first batch of "national key cultural relics protection units".
2. Crescent Spring
is located in the southeast corner of Wulongtan Park and east of Ancient Spring, so it is named after its shape like the first moon. The Crescent Spring Pool is 13 meters long, 8 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. It is revetment with natural stones. In the water, there is a mushroom marble named to commemorate the successful explosion of China's first atomic bomb. When the water is full, it can be sprayed from the top of the 3-meter-high stone, splashing and falling on the spring pool. The pool water flows along Quxi, across the stone bridge and through the bamboo forest, and into the moat. Because of the high water level requirement of the crescent spring, the crescent spring spewing marks that all the springs in Jinan spew.
3. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, also known as "Dongfeng Space City", is one of the launch test bases of China's scientific satellites, technical test satellites and launch vehicles, the earliest and largest comprehensive missile and satellite launch center established in China, and the only manned space launch site in China at present. The satellite launch center was built on an oasis in the Gobi desert, with mountains in the west and rivers in the east. It was a treasure trove of geomantic omen personally selected by Marshal Nie Rongzhen in those days. It is located at the northwest edge of the uninhabited Ejina Badain Jaran Desert, with a linear distance of more than 4 kilometers from Jiuquan City, the nearest place.
4. Yumen Pass
Yumen Pass, commonly known as Small Square City, is said to be named after the beautiful jade of Hetian was imported into the Central Plains. Dunhuang city, at the western end of Hexi Corridor, is one of the two passes in the western border of Han Dynasty. It is the only pass for the ancient silk road to leave Dunhuang in the west and enter the northern and middle roads in the western regions. It has been the gateway for the Central Plains to enter the western regions since ancient times. 15 kilometers away from Yumenguan, there is the ancient city of Hecang, which was the granary of Yumenguan in the Han Dynasty. Only the ruins are left, but the momentum of that year can still be seen. The only way to travel from Dunhuang to Yumenguan is to take the sidewalk rolled out by cars on the Gobi Desert. At that time, Yumenguan, camel bells were long, people shouted hiss, caravans came in an endless stream, messengers came and went, and there was a scene of prosperity. Now, the remains of the Han Yumen Pass are a small square castle, which stands on the gravel hills in the narrow strip of the Gobi Desert that runs east-west. When you climb the ancient pass, you can see it from afar, surrounded by swamps, criss-crossing gullies, winding Great Wall, towering beacon towers, tall and straight Populus euphratica and green springs.
5. Yadan National Geopark
Yadan National Geopark in Dunhuang, Gansu Province is located about 18 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang, a famous historical and cultural city in China, and about 1 kilometers northwest of Yumenguan. The park covers an area of 398 square kilometers. It is a Yadan landform landscape mainly formed by wind erosion. Yadan landform community is a rare natural sculpture museum with orderly layout and strange shape. It can be called another wonder of Dunhuang, which is a wonderful and endless natural masterpiece of nature. When you enter the Yadan landform group at different times, your feelings are completely different. Walking into Yadan landform in the early morning, when the sun rises, you can climb high and overlook, with a little glow, golden light and a myriad of weather; At noon, I walked into the Yadan landform, the sun was shining overhead, and there were many strange shadows around me. In the strange Yadan group, it seemed that smoke was everywhere; Entering Yadan Group in the evening, the huge red sun sinks in the west, the breeze is slowly around, and the glow on the head is brilliant, giving people beautiful enjoyment.
6. The West Thousand-Buddha Cave
The West Thousand-Buddha Cave is an integral part of the Buddhist art system. There are 16 caves from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. Among them, one to three caves belong to the Tang Dynasty, four to eight caves belong to the Wei Dynasty, and sixteen caves belong to the late Tang Dynasty. These nine caves are well preserved, while other caves are difficult to identify because of weathering. Its cave shape and mural art style are the same as those of the Mogao Grottoes, and its creation time is at least the same as that of the Mogao Grottoes. Among the nine well-preserved grottoes, most of them have a central seat, with niches carved around the seat, in which Buddha statues are molded, and the walls are painted with pictures of sages robbing thousands of Buddha, Buddha sitting down and Buddha nirvana. Under the Buddha statues in the center seat and the four walls, the statues of King Kong and Lux are painted. Painting the western section of the south wall of a grotto in the Northern Wei Dynasty (focusing on the story of Zi Jing, and painting the story of the holy change in the eastern section) is a Buddha-born story that Mogao Grottoes did not have in the Northern Wei caves, which can fill its blank and has unique value.
7. Yangguan
When it comes to Yangguan, people will immediately think of a poem, "The rain in Weicheng is light and the dust is light, and the guest house is green and the willow color is new. Advise the monarch to drink more wine, and there is no reason for people to go out of Yangguan in the west. "This masterpiece of Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, can be described as a quatrain, which has been widely circulated after being sung with music. Yangguan is located on the "antique beach" in Nanhu Township, 7 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang City in Hexi Corridor. It is named Yangguan because it is located in the south of Yumenguan. Yangguan, founded in the Yuan Ding period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, is one of the "four counties and two customs" in Hexi. As the gateway to the western regions, Yangguan is also an important pass of the South Road of the Silk Road, and it is a strategic place for ancient military strategists to compete for. After Song and Yuan Dynasties, with the decline of the Silk Road, Yangguan was gradually abandoned.
8. Jiuquan Scenic Spot in the Western Han Dynasty
Jiuquan Park, also known as Quanhu Park, is located 2 kilometers east of Jiuquan City. It is named after Jiuquan in the park and has a history of more than 2, years. Jiuquan Park is a garden-style cultural park with a history of more than 2, years, covering an area of more than 4 mu. There are stone tablets of Jiuquan Scenic Spot in the Western Han Dynasty and Ancient County of Jiuquan in the Han Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, and the tablet of "The Great Earth" written by Zuo Zongtang, which has become a must for tourists to visit Jiuquan. Jiuquan Park is not only famous for the Millennium Gu Quan, the scenic spots of the Western Han Dynasty and the poems of Li Bai, but also a number of scenic spots with modern charm-Shuixie Ancient Boat, Moon Cave Golden Beads, Deep Clouds, Moon Lake Rockery, Flowers and Moon, Cuizhu Garden and Ginkgo Garden. 9. Tibetan Sutra Cave
In p>19, when Wang Yuan, a Taoist priest who lived in Cave 17, rebuilt the Taoist temple, he accidentally found a small door on the north side of the tunnel wall. After opening it, a square cave room appeared, which contained more than 5, pieces of documents, paper paintings, silk paintings, embroidery and other cultural relics from the 4th century to the 11th century (that is, from the Sixteen Countries to the Northern Song Dynasty). This is the famous Tibetan Sutra Cave. These documents, after decades of research, have opened up a brand-new discipline-Dunhuang studies.
1. Yulin Cave
During Jiajing period of Qing Dynasty, Lama Wu Gendong found an ivory Buddha in Yulin Cave, which was handed down from generation to generation. After liberation, it was presented to the government by the last generation of Yulin Cave. Ivory Buddha is an ivory statue, which is carved with ivory teeth. It is said that there are two statues in the world, carved from the same ivory, and the other one has been kept abroad. The whole statue is superb in carving and exquisite in knife cutting, and its shape reflects the artistic style of Indian Jianluo. It can be inferred that the reconstructed statue may have been brought back from India by monks in the Tang Dynasty.